Describes how a workshop for career women (N=20) faced with a conflict over the motherhood decision was designed, conducted, and evaluated. Review of data suggested that the workshop increased awareness of positive and negative aspects of both choice alternatives, providing a realistic and informed vantage point for decision making. (LLL)

Internal management development programs are effective especially for teaching management skills to women because of women's position on the learning curve. (Author)

Describes programs responding to the challenge of the growing number of women returning to the work force. Discusses specific programs in several Florida counties. Vocational educators must be prepared to meet the needs of women who will spend an average of 34 years in the work force. (JOW)

Describes New York Telephone's Ultimate Goals Opportunities program, which trains women for jobs in the technical management area of the company. (IRT)

This document is one in a series of monographs aimed at providing a narrative summary of ideas and thoughts gathered from particular community segments represented in a series of mini-conferences held to discuss the concept of collaboration in career education. In this monograph, the career education activities of the National Federation of…

This report presents a summary of the experiences shared and presentations at a meeting attended by 20 women from different cultures, backgrounds, and situations who met to consider the role of women in the media, the responsible use of media, and the image of women portrayed there. Their main task was to find ways of helping the three sponsoring…

This forty-page annotated bibliography includes specific information on career planning programs for women employees (or activities of such programs). Program listings appear alphabetically by community and junior college and alphabetically by employer. An index by state is also provided. Listings include name of college or employer, contact…

The science career workshop was targeted at freshman and sophomore women enrolled in public and private two- and four-year colleges and universities in the New York City area. The central theme of the workshop was that career choice represents a significant personal decision and needs to be based on sound information about the self, the external…

This paper describes a training program for women designed to increase the number of women candidates for administrative openings (in Education), and to insure that graduates become sensitive to sex stereotyping so they will function as positive agents to eliminate its presence in schools. A total of 39 women during summers of 1975 and 1976…

The cultural position of women vis-a-vis work is changing. Family breakdown and the financial burdens which come with single-parenting are forcing women to enter the job market for the first time or in a new way. Even in two-parent families, economic constraints are demanding that wives as well as husbands work full-time. Too many women will…

This presentation describes a course, "Lifework Planning," designed to help women evaluate their current job status and plan career changes commensurate with long-range life goals. The framework for the program is self-directed learning, through which women develop coping strategies for change. Participants and leaders make mutual decisions…

A project was conducted to develop three prototype comprehensive career planning programs and to offer those prototypes as models that could be used by both educators and personnel directors who are interested in helping employed women improve their occupational status. A national survey of programs in operation in community and junior colleges…

This manual, one of four related documents, is the second stage in a sex fairness program implemented in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District (Pennsylvania). It is designed to help a school district plan an inservice program on sex-fair education for teachers, administrators, and parents. The first section describes the two steps in the…

Describes Project ICES, a model for increasing the numbers of women holding administrative positions in Kansas's public school systems, the organizational characteristics that promoted conflict and participant stress, and the unplanned mechanism (organized anarchy) that reduced conflict. (Author/IRT)

This document presents the conclusions and recommendations of a study conducted to explain the inequalities faced by low-income women in job training, employment, and earnings. The study explored the dimensions of the problems such women face, possible solutions, and the extent to which a group of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) and HEW-related…